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Any good alternative for Google Photos?

I'm looking for a solution that satisfies:

  1. Open source, or partially open source.
  2. Have good privacy practice. Even better if I can get away from 5 Eyes or 9 Eyes.
  3. Have an application for Android that supports auto-sync.

Self-hosting is also an option, but I would prefer a lightweight setup. I checked Immich requirements, but it requires 2 CPU cores and 4 GB memory, which costs way too much if I want to host it on my AWS.

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Aufschieber
lemmy.world

Synology Photo. Then you even have your own "cloud" storage at home.

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devdadreply
programming.dev

Definitely this. I run a home lab, six servers, and I use Synology Photos because it’s so much better than the self hosted alternatives.

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Aufschieberreply
lemmy.world

Yes. But I have mixed experience with this. How well it works might depend heavily on your internet speed (up/down) and on the performance of the synology. Overall user experience is a lot slower than any other commercial service.

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harukireply
programming.dev

Thanks for the cool option. But I just checked, and it seems like there's no way I can set up a QuickConnect ID without a real Synology hardware. I'm a nomad so buying a physical Disk Station is not my preference.

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merthyr1831
lemmy.world

Nextcloud? there's a bunch of private hosts you can sign up for, and some even do free plans which might be good for getting started. The first one I found (alfacloud) did 100gb for €5/month.

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Phoenixz
lemmy.ca

Nextcloud?

It's more like google.srive but with the gazillion plugins available I imagine you can make it do google photos too

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